How can they deny their OWN experiences?
2006-09-28 01:22:30 · 12 answers · asked by Medicine Eddie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I get Religion = Belief...but human experiences...often times the stories of some religious experiences are so fantastic that there is no way, for many of us with modern, reasonable minds and experiences, we could ever accept it as real.
2006-09-28 01:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't quite understand your question but I feel that you are asking why people should be boxed in on some form of religious belief and thus denying themselves of their OWN experience of experiencing religion. In this case, I feel religion as a system of belief should always be and only be a vital reference in ordering ones life. Not as a package to form your life and restrain you in having a fulfilling human experience, as you say.
2006-09-28 01:37:28 · answer #2 · answered by DAX 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not sure. But if you are looking into that sort of thing, do a search on MeMe's. Seriously. I know the word looks funny, but supposedly this is something everyone has and it's like a code in our DNA, handed down, that gives us "beliefs". Some people will say it has to do specifically with just the belief in God, but it stretches further than that.
2006-09-28 01:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one has need of a belief in what they believe to be true whether through religion belief systems or their own experiences in life. one can experience all kinds of miracles each day of their lives which reinforce the religious belief system they believe in.
2006-09-28 01:42:01 · answer #4 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who's experience? How many people have experienced a miracle or deeply religious experience? The masses are supposed to blindly follow the delusions of a few like sheep?
Religion=what you were fed
2006-09-28 01:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by GreyGoul 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'd say both.
I'd also recommend Edwin Abbott's The Kernel and the Husk, an incredibly intelligent look at Christianity written in the 1800's. Probably the best thing I've read on the subject since C.S. Lewis. Anyway, he goes into some very interesting perspectives on "miracles", why he doesn't believe they actually happened, and why he still believes in God anyway.
2006-09-28 01:29:43 · answer #6 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pure religion: arrived "undefiled" and remained "unspotted" in it's come and go "visit"-ation to those "afflicted" with a bad case of life + death = a dead end. So perhaps pure religion (grace and truth thereof) paid the world God so loved a "visit", not a ransom; And perhaps to make it kNOWn to the world life + death(does NOT end with life), and death is followed by hell to pay, whether left or right of the God on high in plural divided law law heavens.
Perhaps grace + law(added) is as life + death(added). So perhaps "the end" to endure unto is saved(only) by grace(only).
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
2006-09-28 01:47:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a faith-based belief.
That's why the voodoo theory/guess of evolution is a religion, it is based on faith since it can't be proven.
2006-09-28 01:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have my own experiences which I don't deny. I have a relationship with Jesus.
2006-09-28 01:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
RELIGION = 1000s of years of HUMANS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND CONCEPTUALIZE THAT WHICH IS BEYOND THEMSELVES and their EXPERIENCE.
God made humans "in His own image." Humans made religion in their own (imperfect) image of who/what they think God is.
2006-09-28 01:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Wolf 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋